Psychology 2990A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Arson, Geographic Profiling, Psychopathy

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2990A/B
• Professor: Doug Hazelwood

Document Summary

Police interrogations: a prosecutors most potent weapon is confession evidence. Interrogation have moved away from physical coercion to more subtle psychological techniques (lying about evidence, promising lenient treatment etc. ) Interrogators with guilty expectations asked more questions that indicated their belief in the suspects guilt. Interrogators with guilty expectations used a higher frequency of interrogation techniques. Interrogators with guilty expectations judged more suspects to be guilty regardless of whether the suspect was actually guilty. An alternative to the reid model: because of problems with coercive interrogation changes in procedures are occurring (especially in england and wales) restricting many techniques found in reid model. In england and wales they use peace mode, planning/preparation, engage/explain, account, closure, evaluation which encourages info gathering more than securing confession: have abandoned term interrogation in favour of investigative interviewing, don"t know if peace model works. Impossible to determine whether confession is true or false: self reported false confessions of inmates is between 0. 6-12%